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iRobot Corp. engages in the business of designing and building robots. It develops proprietary technology incorporating advanced concepts in navigation, mobility, manipulation and artificial intelligence to build robots. The company operates through three segments: Home Robots, Defense and Security Robots, and Remote Presence Robots. The Home Robots segment includes mobile robots that are used in the maintenance of domestic households. The Defense and Security Robots segment includes robots that are used for reconnaissance and bomb disposal missions. The Remote Presence Robots segment includes video collaboration robots that are used to help businesses change the way they work across their organizations. Its products include Roomba, Scooba, Mirra, Braava, Looj, RP-VITA, Ava 500, FirstLook, PackBot, SUGV, Kobra and uPoint. The company was founded in August 1990 by Rodney A. Brooks, Colin M. Angle, and Helen Greiner and is headquartered in Bedford, MA. [...] more

We’re live at Intel's keynote at this year’s CES. At last year’s CES, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich made some waves by choosing to focus on its wearable strategy. We’ll see what he has to offer this year. The company has been particularly focused on its wearable strategy since opening up its New Devices Group in late September 2013.

A new report published by Babson College highlights the persistent gender gap in venture capital funding. While the amount of early-stage investment in companies with a woman on the executive team has tripled from 5 percent to 15 percent in the last 15 years, we still read »

Investors eyeing a purchase of iRobot Corp (NASD: IRBT) stock, but cautious about paying the going market price of $34.51/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particular, is the June 2015 put at the $30 strike, which has a bid at the time of this read »

Audi has done it, with help from Stanford University engineering students and the VW Electronics Research Lab (ERL) in Belmont, California. Ten years after the first running of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s DARPA Grand Challenge, a competition intended to spur development of robotic vehicles, a 560 HP Audi RS 7 lapped the read »

The days of extended independent living, where a robot could allow you to have a quasi-physical presence with a distant relative, talk to them, perform chores for them and possibly even have physical contact with them, is around the corner. At the Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum last week in Chicago, I caught a glimpse of the future and it read »

He called it “a pretty good year,” but Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders could barely contain his glee at announcing the company’s 2014 record annual results last week in Munich, where the German headquarters of the pan-European company is located (the group HQ are in Toulouse, France). In line with his leadership philosophy, he is struggling to be read »

The countdown has started to the Paris climate conference at the end of the year and this time, there will be a binding deal between the parties to cut emissions, according to Mark Kenber, chief executive at The Climate Group.

“Unlike previous meetings, Paris is not the end of the process, it’s more of a signal on where the world is on read »

Alibaba, China’s biggest online commerce company and the world’s fastest growing e-commerce marketplace, officially launched their Trade Assurance Program during ASD Market Week, the largest, most comprehensive trade show of its kind that welcomes over 45K attendees bi-annually. Currently taking place in Las read »

At its core purpose, marketing is supposed to raise awareness to increase business. Too often however, I observe Chief “Marketing” Officers engaged in campaigns and activities designed merely to do the former without true execution on the latter. This needs to end. read »

Professional social networks such as LinkedIn are as important to our economy as banks and capital markets. Those network reduces risks in our economy by offering transparency into the job market. read »

Ordinarily I write about bringing out the talent in other people, but for many years I focused on customer experience and marketing. It bothers me that companies don’t do more to bring out the best not only in their customers, but also in their employees.

Much of this failing comes from a short-sighted, outdated view of what marketing read »